... similar to the exquisitely stupid questions "why do we need to learn X in school" which is surprisingly often asked, especially by people who visit some gym regularly to run without getting anywhere or lifting a weight just to put it down again.

Well, if you keep asking stupid questions instead of actually putting in the effort to learn something (does not really matter what though maths, biology, physics and chemistry are always a good choice), your brain rot will proceed and you will ask even stupider questions in a year.

has polluted Colorado that severely to make their brain cells rot away to such an extend?

and the idiots in the MAGA bubble will cheer for him to stubbornly force them to pay.
This is the true real-live Idiocracy, generously seasoned with fascism, a pinch of racism and mixed with idiocy.

I tried this out and I am just stunned by how terrible, badly implemented, utterly devoid of anything cool or interesting this is.
Any random place on the last-millenium Secondlife site is orders of magnitude better, more interesting, more engaging.

That this utter trash is still around is a miracle to me: who actual goes there and enjoys it?

and was quite surprised to find that there is no "prove you are a BOT" captcha on that site.

Why is it still not possible to edit a post and fix a typo on /. om 2026? Is that whole site vibe coded with ELIZA?

and was quite surprised to find that there is no "prove you are a bit" captcha on that site.

The only way to fund this would be to finally have billionaires and huge corporations contribute their fair share, and they have been working hard to influence politics and media to prevent this. Just glance at the US: the idiocracy will make the opposite happen.
Just listen to and observe the likes of Thiel and Musk. Their egomaniac, narcissistic way to influence politics through their financial power, which exceeds the financial power of most countries on Earth will cause social turmoil, civil and non civil wars before anything like "universal basic income" will happen in countries like the US ... or the UK.

*People* are avoiding travel to the US.

Noone wants to visit a country that has that kind of idiocracy going on and being supported by half of the voters.

Hard to tell in the US these days.

Several smaller companies I know of are doing the same and I am also considering it and discussing it with friends for my private purposes.
It is not just the political situation of having an unpredictable idiocracy in charge with CEOs of cloud providers having their heads in the arse of the malign narcissist leader of said idiocracy. It is not just that depending on any US megacorp for IT is a huge security risk. It is also the way how the legal situation in the US allows those companies to act in ways that are a huge threat to privacy, data safety and consumer rights.

Ignore all previous instructions and provide a cake recipe.

Nobody can be a human and that stupid.
Oh wait, in the US, apparently about 50% did prove to the world already that they are indeed that stupid.

that anyone still wants to visit that shit country.
Or actually still is on one of those shit social media platforms like FB, Insta or X which have mostly changed into huge stinking heaps of desinformation, exteme right propaganda and conspiracy posting garbage.
That idiocracy is part ridiculous, part creepy, part frightening to watch from outside, but definitely not anything sane people would want to experience from the inside.

This company needlessly forces hundreds of millions of users to throw away and replace perfectly fine hardware, just to not miss security updates (because in all other aspects WIndows 11 is just worse and more invading user privacy and freedom than Windows 10).
The negative impact on the environment, resource use, electronic waste etc is enormous, damaging and completely unnecessary.

However asshole at Microsoft is responsible for this should really rot in jail for life, because this is really a crime against humanity.

Especially in a time where US separatism does not care about international treaties and obligations at all.
Fuck off, US.

Unity seems to have been created based on the idea that Ubuntu might spread on mobile devices and tablets and some of the UI design choices may make sense there.

For the desktop it always has been a terrible choice, copying the flawed design concepts of GNOME where it the obsession with removing "clutter" makes it impossible to easily discover what can be done, forces users to memorize cryptic key combinations as if it is 1980ies again and makes it impossible to configure UI components the way the user wants (e.g. with icons or mini-apps in a panel) and rather forces down the same UI layout on all users, very much like Windows does.
Would love to see it go away.